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Mauna Kea, HI—After 8 years of observations
scientists from the SETI Institute have found an exotic orbit for the
largest Trojan asteroid, (624) Hektor—the only one known to possess a
moon. The...
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Mauna Kea, HI—California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers using data
gathered at the W. M. Keck Observatory have developed a new technique for
planetary scientists that could provide...
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MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp,
the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has
directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf...
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MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – Astronomers have
discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas,
revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect
galaxies...
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Mauna Kea, Hawaii – University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer Regina Jorgenson has obtained the first image that shows the structure of a normal galaxy in the early universe as captured by the W. M....
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Mauna Kea, Hawaii – The Kepler team today reports on four years of observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory targeting Kepler's exoplanet systems, announcing results this week at the American...
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Waimea, Hawaii – Scientists from University
of California, Berkeley, and University of Hawaii, Manoa, have statistically determined
that twenty percent of Sun-like stars in our galaxy have...
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Kamuela, Hawaii
– A team of
astronomers has found the first Earth-sized planet outside the solar system that
has a rocky composition like that of Earth. This exoplanet, known as
Kepler-78b,...
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